This site is the blogging component for my main site Crank Astronomy (formerly "Dealing with Creationism in Astronomy"). It will provide a more interactive component for discussion of the main site content. I will also use this blog to comment on work in progress for the main site, news events, and other pseudoscience-related issues.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

It's been a while since I dealt with claims of geocentrists and there are a few outstanding issues which I hope to address in the future. However, others have continued to be active in the topic. David Palm has collected some of the material at Geocentrism Debunked (www.geocentrismdebunked.org).

David approaches the issue predominantly from the perspective of geocentrism being bad theology. He also presents some profiles of the 'leading' geocentrists, profiling the personalities involved, which, of no surprise, intersects with various other conspiracy theories.

Some of these conspiratorial beliefs I suspected from my earlier encounters with the geocentrists, since they would often evade direct questions about the impact of their beliefs on space flight.

There have been some interesting studies on the conspiratorial mindset of late. You can find out more at:

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I obtained my doctorate in physics and astronomy in 1994. I currently work in scientific data visualization for the media and public outreach. For more information on how I became involved in the creationism issue, visit my main page